Monday, February 23, 2004

Free Light

Hundreds of fluorescent tubes have been "planted" in a field in an art event demonstrating electricity fields under power lines.

Rows of lights are flickering into life each evening as a result of emissions from the cables above.

Also:

"It illustrates graphically that power lines do indeed have these electrical fields around them."

This article mentions: "A FIELD of 1,300 fluorescent tubes light up the night sky - powered solely by the force field from overhead power lines."

This is a well-known phenomenon. One question would be, "can you use the effect in some productive way?" For example, could you power a watch or a mote with the 60-hertz field that now permeates the United States?